Texts Online:



Always Follow the Instructions: Rules and Rule Following in Visual Art (2005)
Uploaded 2015. My Phd thesis on text machines from 2005 at Chelsea College of Art and Design.


Markov Chain Algorithms* (2004)
(I wrote this in 2004. It was to work out what they were about).


Computer Poetry's Neglected Debut* (2004)(Originally published by CHArt,
the Computers and the History of Art group).


Erratic Structures* (2005)
(An email dialogue with a well-known Professor of linguistics).


A Pessimistic Mechanics?*
(First published in Crimes of Futility No. 7:
The ArtistMachine, Wild Pansy Press, ISBN 1900687 22 4, Exhibition catalogue essay, 2006, for Simon Lewandowski).


Art, War, and Cambridge Cybernetics (2007)(Not on this website. Published by MediaArtHistoriesArchive).


An Eternal Engine*
(Revised 2008 text of a presentation at New Network Theory june.07).


Surveillance and the art of software_maintenance*
(Part of this essay was originally published as: Surveillance and The Art of Software Maintenance: Remarks on logo_wiki,
in ‘Observatori 2008. After the Future’. Valencia, Observatori.com).


Art and Software Entropy* (2009)(Originally published by CHArt,
the Computers and the History of Art group). Published here 2013.

The return of what has been forgotten Ian Hamilton Finlay: Revolution and Poetry*. (2012)(Originally published by Birkbeck)

Poetry Beyond the Turing Test (2016)(Not on this website. Published by Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2016))
Resuscitating a Dead Rabbit (2020)(Not on this website. Published by Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2020))


* Essays published on this website are copylefted according to the GNU General Public License